"federation doesn't scale! It's impossible!" I say on the world wide network of networks that's built up of thousands and thousands of individual operators interoperating over a suite of standard protocols.
"federation doesn't scale! It's impossible!" I say on the world wide network of networks that's built up of thousands and thousands of individual operators interoperating over a suite of standard protocols. 3 comments
@megmac Yeah - there are currently only about 74,000 Autonomous System Networks, announcing over 938,000 routed networks, containing millions of independently managed subnets. How could you possibly scale a few thousand hosts? |
@megmac internet is more or less a fediverse that mostly runs on beer (and some money here and there) :)
Edit: whereby I always uncontrollably giggle when the crypto bros brag about the bitcon and other projects surviving the collapse of the civilization :)